Reflection essay

Coonie was a person who was always restricted by her mother from admiring herself in the mirror, “Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed-what the hell stinks? Her spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk”(Oates). It explains the way that teenagers think, it is something like one cannot underestimate their thinking level as it is a process that one thinks about. It can be seen that a person in that age would definitely think over things, as she knows everything. Almost every teenager in his or her teenage life would think that they know everything and would hate it from the heart if were asked to do something about it.

At the same time by giving her example of her sister made her even angry. Her sister’s name was June and she was nine years elder to her. “She makes me want to throw up sometimes”(Oates), it shows that she was completely not liking the fact that she was constantly being given an example to be like her own sister. It is something that the teenagers usually do and would not allow this to be a part of their life, as all of the teenagers at a certain age would definitely want to be unique. It at the same time showed that “Their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper wen to the bed.”(Oates). This shows an important factor about parents, it is their duty to divide and at the same time give equal amount of time to their family, as work is something that is important but at the same time if proper care is not given to the family it would take them apart and make them believe like they are being pressurized by the parents to do certain things.

“Coonie had long dark blond hair that drew anyone’s eye to it” shows that Coonie was an attractive young girl (oates). It is like at the young age, the girls look very beautiful and are flirted by the guys who would like to flirt with them or something like that. The author makes a point here that she was attracted and would easily get influenced by the guys that surrounded. This lead to an incident in the parking where a person in a convertible tried flirting with her by telling “Gonna get you, baby” it shows the way men or in fact boys think about a young girl. They want a girl to be giving them attention (Oates).

The author gives out a message towards the end about a person who can easily be influenced by others. The main important thing that I feel in the story is the relationship with the father, it is like one of the most important things that a person should look for as it allows the person to understand and at the same time build a mark in their life. At a young age kids do commit mistakes and then instead of regretting those, they should learn about the mistakes and should promise not to make it happen again. Just like in the end “so much land that Coonie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it.” this explains that there could be good things that could happen and at the same time there can be bad things that would happen.